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IOC member Dick Pound says the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be postponed, USA Today reports
Details will be worked out over the next four weeks
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International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says that the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be postponed, USA Today reports. The key details:
• Postponement will likely be to 2021; details will be worked out over the next four weeks, according to Pound.
• “On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,” Pound says in the interview.
• “The parameters going forward have not been determined,” Pound continues, “but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.”
• IOC will announce next steps soon. “We will postpone this and begin to deal with all the ramifications of moving this, which are immense,” Pound adds.
—Bloomberg News
